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Published YouTube on 11 Oct 2013
‘Siren of the Lambs’ is in essence a depressed and weathered green slaughterhouse delivery truck, labelled Farm Fresh Meats, crammed with 60 cuddly soft toys on the road to a (sic) death. The collection of stuffed animals are accompanied by a variety of screams and squeals playing in the background as they stick their heads and snouts through the slits in their mobile prison.
Source: Care 2
Detail of Power to the People (2015). Photograph: Margaret Meehan (c), courtesy of Flowers Gallery
Margaret Meehan’s collages and sculptures turn ostracised, forgotten women into defiant modern feminists – giving voice to the fringe with prosthetics and paint
“I love pink,” laughs Meehan. “In high school I was sort of the punk girl pushing against its girly associations. But I got over that; I found a book called Pink in Contemporary Art and it showed me how subversive that colour’s been. I was using pink as a bruise; as pus and blood.” For a 2011 show in which she reimagined the hairy-faced 19th-century hypertrichosis sufferer Alice Doherty as a powerful female boxer, Meehan learned to do prosthetics, giving her Doherty model a split lip and broken eyelid. Pink, yes, but certainly not pretty.
Source: The Guardian
Further reading Riot grrrl: 10 of the best
A new innovative company in the medicinal cannabis industry may have found an all-natural and highly effective way for women to treat menstrual cramps and pains. No, they’re not actually cannabis tampons but rather small capsules, called Foria Relief.
When inserted directly into the vagina these cannabis tampons provide powerful pain relief.
Foria Relief, which pot enthusiast and writer Sophie Saint Thomas points out is “the first—and only—cannabis suppository on the market dedicated to treating menstrual cramps,” contains only three ingredients: organic cocoa butter, THC oil, and CBD Isolate.
Foria says that the combination of THC and CBD it uses in the suppositories was specifically designed to “activate certain cannabinoid receptors in the pelvic region when introduced into the body.”
Source: Green Rush Daily
Del Kathryn Barton and Brendan Fletcher bring Oscar Wilde’s, The Nightingale and the Rose to vivid live in this animation masterpiece featuring Geoffrey Rush.
Exhibition on til September 11, 2016. @ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne Australia.
Back in 1999, Sony released a robotic dog called Aibo, a canine companion that didn’t crap everywhere and only ate electricity. It sold pretty well — 150,000 units, despite the $2,000 price tag. Some owners became remarkably attached, which makes it even more sad that Sony has stopped repairing Aibo. Slowly but surely, they’re all dying.
he New York Times has recorded the plight of current-day Aibo owners in a completely heartbreaking video. They interviewed a series of owners, whose Aibos are a central part of their lives, but are slowly having to come to the fact that their dogs have a life expectancy.
Source: Gizmodo 2015